Publications

COMPLETE LIST

“Courts and Tribunals Through a Sustainability Lens: New Questions and New Expectations” published in Sustainable Development and the Law: People. Environment. Culture. edited by Shi-Ling Hsu and Patrick A. Molinari and published by the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice,2006

“Making Decisions and Resolving Conflict: A Passing Fancy or a New Order? An Essay on an Emerging Face of Governance” an unpublished essay.

“Bridging Uncertainty: Dispute Resolution Processes as a Means to Settlement”, a paper prepared for a Conference sponsored by The Great Lakes Program of the State University of New York, at Buffalo – “Environmental Dispute Resolution in the Great Lakes Region: A Critical Appraisal”, March, 1988.

“Reaching Resolution: The Building Blocks of Settling Environmental and Resource Disputes”. A paper presented at, and published in the proceedings of, the 1992 Isaac Pitblado Lectures; Law Society of Manitoba.

“Inside the Space Between A & B and C, D & E: Reflections and Suggestions on Practice and Quality” The Association for Conflict Resolution Environmental Public Policy Section, Critical Issuess Papers, Tucson, Arizona, May 2002″

“An Adjudicators’ Compass: Finding One’s Bearings, and Staying On Course”, Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice, Volume 4, No. 2., a paper originally prepared for a Seminar for Administrative Tribunals organized by the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, May, 1989.

Publications written during the period 1969-1973 Glenn was involved as a Senior Research Associate with the Centre for Settlement Studies (University of Manitoba) examining opportunities and challenges for the involvement of First Nations people in major resource development initiatives in northern Canada:

Economic Status of the Canadian Indian: A Re-Examination, University of Manitoba, December, 1969. P. Deprez and G. Sigurdson. A research publication of the Centre for Settlement Studies prepared while a research associate at the Centre.

Northern Co-Operatives as a Strategy for Community Change: The Case of Fort Resolution, Centre for Settlement Studies, University of Manitoba, May, 1972. G. Fields and G. Sigurdson.

“Reconciliation and Healing: Alternative Resolution Strategies for Dealing with Residential School Claims“. Published under the authority of the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, March 2000. Click here for PDF.

“Conveners Report from Changing Currents: Charting a Course of Action for the Future of Oceans”, Dialogue Session February 23-26, 2005. Published by the Centre for Coastal Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Simon Fraser University.

“Competitive Cities, Healthy Communities: Charting Collaboration”, Report on a Symposium in Western Canada by Patrice A. Dutil. Published by IPAC (The Insitute of Public Administration of Canada), 2003.

“Asking the Right Questions: The Future Management of Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel”. Published by the NWMO (Nuclear Waste Management Organization), November 2003.

This series of three books – The Dialogue Forum Handbook, The Dialogue Forum Reflections, and The Dialogue Forum Diary – features articles, instructions and notes generated during two Dialogue Forums held at Simon Fraser University’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue.

The Dialogue Forum The Dialogue Forum is an ongoing research initiative. TheKnowing Dialogue Through Dialogue series reflects a growing body of knowledge around the use of dialogue-based approaches in dealing with challenging conversations with a public aspect. The goal of the Forum is to evolve a deeper understanding of dialogue, both generically and in specific contexts that differ by reason of sector or activity, people and place.

BUILDING CONSENSUS

“If you want to work on the big stuff, sweat the small stuff”

“Leading without owning”

“Go slow to go fast”

“Going forward by working backwards’

‘If you want to engage differently externally, you have to think and act differently internally”

“Process is product; form is substance”

“A good way to a good place”

“Two ears, and one mouth send one message”

“The world is a village; the village is a world”

“Values are the lens through which we see the world, and the world sees us”

“Values are who we are; power is what we can do to each other”

“People act in accordance with how they perceive their interests; changing perceptions is the energy of negotiations”

“Safespace”

“What you see depends on where you stand”

“Think big and small, not big or small”

“Being ‘open’ is the essence of dialogue”

“Dialogue is about discovering and discussing the reasons behind what we do, and won’t do; we all have ‘our reasons’”

“Seeing the road ahead takes both high beams and low beams”

“The river that divides the land gives the land its strength”

“Government – too small a word for too big a thing”

“Governments think slowly, and act clumsily”

“Governments think programmatically, not transactionally”

“Organizations are just a bunch of people; institutions are just old organizations”

“Sustainability is an ‘order of magnitude word’ – like capitalism and socialism, freedom and democracy – that can embrace many things in different ways in different places at different times”

“Being good is good, but not good enough: what creates value is doing and being seen to do good by others who see the world differently than you do”

Is the “ostensible problem” the ” real problem” ? Problem solvers know that is the most important problem.